ID: 700006606 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700006606	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Cameo Glass Flask (flask (bottle); Unknown Roman (Roman Artist); 25 BCE - CE 25; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa (Malibu, Los Angeles...; 85.AF.84)

Note: The figures encircling this flask may be part of a narrative from the life of the Egyptian god Horus, son of the goddess Isis. When Horus was killed by a scorpion's sting in Heliopolis, the sun-god, Aton-re, sent the god Thoth to restore Horus to life. The two youths depicted on the flask may be Horus. On one side, he holds a garland and worships Thoth, depicted as a baboon seated atop an altar. On the other side, he offers stalks of grain before an altar with a uraeus carved on its side, a reference to his mother Isis. Aton-Re stands behind the altar. He is shown as a pharoah holding a crooked staff and a vessel. The site of Heliopolis is indicated by the presence of a tree and an obelisk carved with hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs are "nonsense-hieroglyphs" and have no meaning. A decorative rosette is carved on the flask's underside. An alternative interpretation of the iconography is that the obelisk in the scene refers to events in Rome, and the arrival of two obelisks from Heliopolis in 10 B.C. Alternatively, the imagery may simply be evocative of Egypt.Blown, cased (dip-overlay method, opaque white over translucent blue), carved, cut, ground, polished

Titles:

Cameo Glass Flask (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Flask (C,U,English,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

flask (bottle) [300045671] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers), bottles, <bottles by form>)

cameo (sculpture) [300047261]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by technique>)

Classifications:

vessels / containers (preferred)

Creation Date: 25 BCE - CE 25

Creator Display:

Unknown Roman (Roman Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

unknown Ancient Roman (Ancient Roman cultural designation) [500202843]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa (Malibu, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500125181] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 85.AF.84

Other: Creation: Roman Empire [7030347] World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Glass

	glass (material) [300010797]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

Dimensions: Object: H: 7.6 x W: 4.2 cm (3 x 1 5/8 in.)

Cultures:

Roman (preferred)

Ancient Roman

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Imperial (Roman) [300020541] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Early Western World, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Ancient Italian, Roman (ancient Italian culture or period))

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Thoth [901000159]
	.....((Egyptian characters, Egyptian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	baboon [300255548]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Primates (order), Cercopithecoidea (superfamily), Cercopithecidae (family)) (AAT)

	Horus [901001076]
	.....((Egyptian characters, Egyptian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	snake (suborder) [300250870]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Reptilia (class), Squamata (order)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Cameo Glass Flask	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Flask	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP,JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)